[Bacula-users] Weird "Cannot find any appendable volumes" message

[Alberto B. <abr...@og...>]

I need some suggestions to understand why bacula doesn't recognize a 
volume.

I have a fresh volume in the "Default" pool:

list media returns:
+---------+------------+-----------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ 

| mediaid | volumename | volstatus | volbytes        | volfiles | 
volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | 
lastwritten         |
+---------+------------+-----------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ 

|       5 | nodc002    | Full      | 119,034,692,208 |      256 |   
31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO-2     | 2007-09-02 23:31:23 |
|       6 | nodc003    | Full      |  34,594,779,637 |       62 |   
31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         1 | LTO-2     | 2007-10-10 23:05:32 |
|      11 | nodc004    | Full      |  34,221,600,914 |       54 |   
31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO-2     | 2008-01-29 23:05:07 |
|      15 | nodc001    | Append    |               0 |        0 |   
31,536,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO-2     |                     |
+---------+------------+-----------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ 


status storage=LTO returns "*unknown*" in the Pool field

Device status:
Device "FileStorage" (/tmp) is not open.
Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) is mounted with:
   Volume:      nodc001
   Pool:        *unknown*
   Media type:  LTO-2
   Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
   Positioned at File=0 Block=0
====

After running a job
status storage=LTO returns:

Device status:
Device "FileStorage" (/tmp) is not open.
Device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) is mounted with:
   Volume:      nodc001
   Pool:        Default
   Media type:  LTO-2
   Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
      Pool:        Default
      Media type:  LTO-2
   Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
   Positioned at File=1 Block=0

but the tape is into the drive and is correctly labelled.

*readlabel
btape: btape.c:425 Volume label read correctly.

Volume Label:
Id                : Bacula 1.0 immortal
VerNo             : 11
VolName           : nodc001
PrevVolName       :
VolFile           : 0
LabelType         : PRE_LABEL
LabelSize         : 160
PoolName          : Default
MediaType         : LTO-2
PoolType          : Backup
HostName          : miranda

Directory and storage daemons are on different hosts.
bacula-sd version 2.2.8, OS Debian Lenny
bacula-dir version 1.38.11, OS Debian etch

I'm not a bacula expert.

Where are my mistakes?

Thanks

Alberto